We have a wonderful opportunity for you to win some Turbine Points! Thaladus has offered up a Turbine Points he’s purchased himself just for you to create a great LOTRO video.
This will be a Lotro in-game video montage with the theme of “I am a Rockstar”. The rest of the story is up to you to show us in a original video. Entrees may be serious or funny. We mostly want to see creativity!
Creating Videos
There are many methods for capturing and editing video game footage and we really don’t have any requirements you must follow for creating your commercial. Use whatever you feel comfortable with. So long as we can watch your end product and it meets our rules below, we are satisfied.
If you are not sure where to start here are some links that may help:
- Our post series “Records of Battle” covers using Fraps or Xfire as recording options.
- Other recording options:
- Wegame: http://www.wegame.com/
- LiteCam: http://www.litecam.net/
- Windows Movie Maker is a free movie editing tool that you may want to look into if you do not already own editing software.
Rules
Here are the rules Thaladus has set for this giveaway:
- Your video must portray the “I am a Rockstar” theme.
- You may have up and not exceeding a 10 second intro (I will accept video clips from Fantasy movies (Dungeons and Dragons, Dragonslayer, Lord of the Rings, Conan, etc.)
- You must have a 10 second hover over your character’s vitals before you begin your video. (You must hover over your character picture (in-world) or power/morale bars before beginning your choreograph), this is a fail-safe. Failure to provide this will result in instant disqualification of your video.
- You must credit the song name and creator either before or after the video (at the end), and crediting yourself of course for your work in the project, self-pimps are nice.
- No voice chats. Chat bubbles are allowed, emotes will help a great deal.
- You may organize a gathering of people to help you accomplish your video, but they will not receive any share or stake in the prize. Your account, your video.
- Multiple entries will be disqualified, I have methods for detecting this.
- I reserve the right to place a limit on the number of entries to the contest. I will be reviewing most of these myself to keep this unbiased and impartial to the winner.
- Videos must be in H.264/MP-4 video format and have a resolution no less than 480p and no more than 720p. This will keep the file sizes small for a 3-4 minute video. FLV files will be rejected.
- Your video must be received by February 17, 2012, 11:59 EDT (-4 GMT)
Prizes
We have two points codes to give away to the best videos submitted!
- Grand Prize winner: 2,500 Turbine Points Code
- Runner-up: 1,500 Turbine Points Code
How to Enter
If your video is less than 5MB email it to us at contests@casualstrolltomordor.com, however you will most likely need to use a service called Dropsend.com. Dropsend.com is a free and easy tool that will allow you to send files up to 2GB in size.
Send all videos or Dropsend links to contests@casualstrolltomordor.com.
How Winners Are Selected
Thaladus will be selecting the winner and runner up from the videos submitted. Winners will be uploaded to the CSTM YouTube channel for all to enjoy!
February 3, 2012 at 2:23 pm
LMB will certainly be submitting something. Now the problem is which rockstar to feature?
–Harper
February 4, 2012 at 3:01 pm
To clarify, what exactly does it mean by “hover over your vital character”? Is this the same as “selecting” your character?
February 4, 2012 at 9:46 pm
I also have no clue what you mean by “hover over your vital character.”
February 5, 2012 at 2:51 am
Yes, could you explain what you mean a little better there?
February 5, 2012 at 8:53 am
Alrighty. That was a misprint on my part.
It was supposed to read “Hover over your character’s vitals”.
So after you have logged into the game and are in-world, hover your cursor over your character’s picture or power/morale bars.
Thank you for pointing that out. Does that help clear up the confusion or does it need clearer explanation?
February 5, 2012 at 3:26 pm
all good from here
February 8, 2012 at 10:10 am
I like these kind of contest but many of us find complicated recording videos, I have FPS issues even when I’m playing the game only…
February 22, 2012 at 3:22 am
Is there also another option of sending the video to you?
I always get ‘Fails’ when using dropsend.com
My video is 330MB in size so that should be ok right?
Ty for this contest ^^